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Re: "The maggots who voted for Obama" driving Texas away from the Union

So the crazies who are screwing with the conservative base are doubling down after the thrashing they took? I can't for the life of me think of how to marginalize them out of the party so they aren't the tail that's wagging our dog.

As Republicans, we can't go vote for Democrats but we can't have the inmates running the asylum either.

Re: "The maggots who voted for Obama" driving Texas away from the Union

Then we could remove the "fence" and personnel at the current Mexican border, build a wall all around our borders to Texas and let the Mexicans overrun Texas and build closer Corona factories. Makes perfect sense...I'm all for it!

Re: "The maggots who voted for Obama" driving Texas away from the Union

Originally Posted by Berger-boy

Teamaggots. I like that. I think Texas also has some antique right to divide into several states, five at most. Not sure who that would help, but I think it would be cool.

That was to accommodate the implied "western boundary" for slavery and the southern boundary defined by the Missouri Compromise. If Texas ever did secede (and if the US let it), it could divide into as many states as it wanted.

Re: "The maggots who voted for Obama" driving Texas away from the Union

Steve Munisteri, the fifty-four-year-old chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.........

..But Munisteri is more preoccupied by the racial and ethnic changes. He turned to a chart showing Texas’s population by ethnic group over the next few decades. A red line, representing the white population, plunged from almost fifty-five per cent, in 2000, to almost twenty-five per cent, in 2040; a blue line, the Hispanic population, climbed from thirty-two per cent to almost sixty per cent during the same period. He pointed to the spot where the two lines crossed, as if it augured a potential apocalypse. “This shows when Hispanics will become the largest group in the state,” he said. “That’s somewhere in 2014. We’re almost at 2013!” He added, “You cannot have a situation with the Hispanic community that we’ve had for forty years with the African-American community, where it’s a bloc of votes that you almost write off. You can’t do that with a group of citizens that are going to compose a majority of this state by 2020, and which will be a plurality of this state in about a year and a half.”

He told me that he had a slide that he wouldn’t show me, because he didn’t want Democrats to know about his calculations. He said that it depicted the percentage of the white vote that Republicans would have to attract if they continued to do as poorly as they have among Hispanics.

“By 2040, you’d have to get over a hundred per cent of the Anglo vote,” he said.